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| 2016-06-06 | |||||
| A celebration of the perceived demise of "white America" as he, a white law professor, and his leftist allies see it. [Salon] Donald Trump was born 70 years ago this month, at the very beginning of the baby boom. At that time, America was, in every sense, an unambiguously white country. First, in demographic terms, nearly 90 percent of the population was categorized as white. Thus endeth the "demographic part of this presentation. Next, et seq., the Marxist analysis. Groups that in the not-too-distant past had been considered only partially or imperfectly or not really white – such as Irish and German Catholics, Italians, and Jews – had by now been largely granted white status, as part of a melting pot ideology which claimed to transform a multi-ethnic population into a society in which race and ethnicity were subsumed into a single American identity.
I thought we were talking about race. But now, we're talking about ideology. What ideology, pray tell, is in play here? Second, the political, economic, and cultural dominance of white America was so taken for granted by white Americans that it was, as a social matter, invisible to them. At that time, whiteness in America was what sociologists call an “unmarked category.” It was an "unmarked category" because government did not keep track of ethnicity until the civil rights act. For example, if a white person had been shown a photograph of the Senate, it’s practically certain that he or she would simply not have noticed that it was made up exclusively of white people. (Nor would the observer have noticed that all these people happened to be men, but that’s a different topic.) Nothing I saw in the laws extant at the time prevent other minorities from running for Senate. The men who were elected to the Senate were out there to do one job: rob the rest of us blind.
In the Jim Crow south as well as the smug liberal north. Things weren't much better in the north than in the south. That country no longer exists: or rather it only continues to exist in the increasingly panicked imaginations of the sorts of white people who have – it still seems incredible when one puts it into words – made Donald Trump the Republican party’s presidential candidate. Panicked? Have you seen the anti-Trump riots? If anything the rise of Trump can be seen as a counter to a leftist racialist movement, which will be discarded once the left gets its eight year lease on the national pocketbook. On a personal note, I wouldn't vote for Trump if my life depended on it, but for the Red Queen. I personally am a 'molten lava' voter: I will swim through molten lava to vote against Hilarity... Today, barely three out of five Americans are non-Hispanic whites. In another two or three decades, “white” people, as traditionally defined, will make up less than half the population. White America is in the process of disappearing, and it’s no surprise that tens of millions of people who thought of this as their country are frightened by the thought that it isn’t any more. I fail to see, and I have yet to hear from Republicans I know in meat space about race. They are all to a man worried about the growth of government, and the unrelenting runaway power of those who are behind that growth. All this helps explain incidents such as Trump’s claim this week that a federal judge who has ruled against him in a lawsuit is a “Mexican,” even though the judge was born in Indiana. Clueless journalists treated this as yet another example of Trump’s apparently bottomless ignorance, when in fact it’s obviously a strategic choice on his part. Strategic choice because of another Affirmative Action jurist decides to press a civil suit. To Trump’s supporters, a person of Mexican ancestry is Mexican, rather than American, because Americans are white, and “Mexicans” aren’t. To the overt racists who make up Trump’s – and to a significant extent, the contemporary Republican party’s – electoral base, non-whites are at best Americans by courtesy or sufferance, because America has always been a white country. Again, I have yet to hear from the circles I move in anything about race. They are more concerned, as am I about the raw power of government. A few years ago, Trump discovered that there was an enormous untapped market, as he would think of it, for overt racism in mainstream American politics. This is why he laid the groundwork for his presidential run by constantly repeating paranoid nonsense about Barack Obama not really being an American. He was, as they say in the business schools, establishing his “brand.” I have never accept Obama as an American because he does not accept my beliefs in the Constitution.
The Democratic party is about subtle racism. Nah, the Democrats are not subtle about it at all...
Change your registration. I vote Republican, horrified as I am about a New York liberal running for president. Paul Campos is a Marxist, pro Hillary fluffer at the University of Colorado at Boulder. | |||||
| Posted by:badanov |
| #24 At least vote for your state, local and national representatives. The red states and red communities are balancing budgets, starting to work toward controlling pension and benefits costs, and fighting the feds on gun control, Obamacare, even BDS and bathrooms. And among those politicians will come the future president and Congresscritters, honed sharp in these battles and considerably clearer on what changes are needed and how to get them done. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-06-06 21:38 |
| #23 Whatever you do, don't 'sit this one out' completely. At least vote for your state, local and national representatives. If Shillary wins, without them we're screwed. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-06-06 20:38 |
| #22 I think that's what most of us are doing, #21 Thing. :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2016-06-06 18:13 |
| #21 We're stuck with lousy candidates! I'm going to put on the plastic smile and pull the less damaging lever! Sad! |
| Posted by: Thing From Trump Mountain 2016-06-06 16:58 |
| #20 "Admittedly I do not understand why such blind support exists on the right. " Well, for me it's as simple as he won the primary and I have to pretend he's a good candidate because Hillary will be worse in many ways. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-06-06 16:23 |
| #19 And you can keep your meteor to yourself. I still have things I'd like to do in this world, come Hildebeest or high water, I plan on staying alive as long as God will let me. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-06-06 13:19 |
| #18 I feel your pain OS. Ring the buzzer and ask that your infumorph drip be increased. It helped me vote for Trump. Just say'n. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-06-06 13:14 |
| #17 Hiram Rhodes Revels and Blanche Kelso Bruce were the first Black Senators. There is a bit more info here. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-06-06 13:09 |
| #16 And don't give me that crap that if I don't vote for Trump its a vote for Hillary. It isn't, and more than not voting for Hillary is a vote for Trump. You're right OS. Not voting is the same as a vote for the winner. The same as a vote for the giant meteor. The same as being dead - but then you'd be voting (D). |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-06-06 12:59 |
| #15 Whoops, comment should be on the Clarice Feldman article. |
| Posted by: charger 2016-06-06 12:56 |
| #14 I guess we could say Clarice is disturbed by the silence of the lambs. |
| Posted by: charger 2016-06-06 12:55 |
| #13 Ho hum. Another liberal loonie playing the race card. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-06-06 12:05 |
| #12 From Clarice Feldman's Facebook page: From Rattler Gator:what kind of dumbbells on the Judiciary Committee ok a judge active in La Raza? Posted by: clarice | June 05, 2016 at 08:51 PM Clarice, I have a theory. We have a nation full of conservative lawyers who: [1] still can't quite figure out the game that has been played on them, [2] still insist on the niceties of the profession even as blatant politics are played from the bench, [3] still aghast that the equivalent of a street fighter aspires to the Presidency (he's not even a lawyer, you know?) and is close to attaining it. That Trump is just so damn uncouth! I mean, hey . . . you have a problem with La Raza? Hell, follow the rules and file a petition to have the offending judge removed. What's the big deal, man? They completely miss the issue the presumptive nominee is putting forward, Clarice. They scoff at the mention of Big Boy Politics in this situation because they still don't grasp that the very issue Trump is raising re Judge Curiel *is* the effectuation of Big Boy Politics from the bench and no damn petition to have the Judge removed from this singular case even remotely begins to address the issue that Trump quite rightly is saying (to the nation, mind you) needs to be addressed. In fact, it is casually insulting to presume he has no real issue with the Judge and to assert it's really all about muddying up a case he's sure to lose. Trump seems to me to be saying this isn't a matter just for lawyers and their protocols. The NATION needs to think about this. So . . . what kind of dumbbells, Clarice? The kind that aren't dumbbells at all. Just a group with a bunch of peers and social cohorts overly concerned with the niceties of judicial protocol while their adversaries play Big Boy Politics in legislative chambers and from the bench, completely unimpeded. |
| Posted by: badanov 2016-06-06 10:55 |
| #11 no mo uro = agree 100% |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-06-06 10:52 |
| #10 Used to be a racist was somebody who'd lynch Negroes for being literate. Nowaday, you're a racist for point out that some "African-American" college graduates are illiterate. p.s. If an Afrikaner emigrates to US, does he become an African-American? How about North Africans? pp.s. I understand some Americans are not "natural born", are they unnatural born, or (like Superman) supernatural born? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-06-06 10:09 |
| #9 Donald Trump was born 70 years ago this month, at the very beginning of the baby boom. At that time, America was, in every sense, an unambiguously white country. First, in demographic terms, nearly 90 percent of the population was categorized as white. That was before the Left decided to introduce a new classification called 'Hispanic' to manipulate the data. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-06-06 09:56 |
| #8 Vote for Darrell Castle. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-06-06 07:51 |
| #7 The fear and paranoia is not the Trumpers. It is on the left. How do I know? Because the violence is being initiated by the left. The real issue of fear in this election isn't white people afraid of losing "privilege", that ridiculous term used by the fake educated NPR-listening pseudointellectual class whose thought process has been perverted by the Gramscian termite and Frankfurt School absurdity. The fear in this election that is palpable is that of those whose income stream depends on either direct government funding, or on regulations that force people to purchase their goods/services. Welfare recipients/public employees, grant and subsidy recipients, and rent-seekers whose business would vanish in a more sane regulatory environment are absolutely terrified right now with the prospect of having their rice bowl smashed. And yet, absent the smashing of millions of rice bowls in the near future, the country fails anyways, and the rice bowl gets smashed eventually. "You HAVE to keep this mess, this Blue State model going, even if only for four more years! I have a mortgage to pay! I have vacations to take! If you try and take away my good thing, I, I, I'll KILL YOU!" That, not fear of a multi-ethnic America, is the terror in this election. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2016-06-06 05:38 |
| #6 O.S. - how do your grandkids, who have never had the chance to live and love and have grandkids of their own, like your bumper sticker? That's exactly the kind of nihilism, exactly the kind of "take my ball and burn it all down" attitude that regulars at Rantburg generally oppose. I don't even have kids and that attitude bothers me. You're entitled to put it on your car. Just step back for a minute and think before you do. I've always respected your posts and contributions. That bumper sticker is sick, IMO. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2016-06-06 05:25 |
| #5 Of course the observer would not have noticed that all those people were men, because since 1921 there were always some Congresswomen, and since 1931 only six years when there were no female Senators ...Actually, the first female member of Congress got there in 1916, Jeanette Rankin. She would be considered very liberal today, and has the distinction of voting against both the US entry into WWI (one of 56 Congresscritters to do so) and WWII (the ONLY one to do so.) Seems to me Professor Whatshisname believes that women in US national politics starts only after the Nineteenth Amendment. The fact is that by 1921, forty states out of forty-eight allowed women to vote in one form or another, though it was far from uniform. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2016-06-06 05:12 |
| #4 And before you ask, no I am not voting for Trump, nor Hillary nor Libertarian whoever. I haven't voted for liberals in general in a long time. And don't give me that crap that if I don't vote for Trump its a vote for Hillary. It isn't, and more than not voting for Hillary is a vote for Trump. It just shows you to be using fallacious argumentation, and irrational. Here is my candidate> http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/SMODBumperSticker-450x338.jpg |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2016-06-06 05:00 |
| #3 Isn't this one of the things people (like me) who opposed Trump warned about - his tacit tolerance of racism in some of his supporters? Now with the racist comments about the judge in his fraud case, associating him with racism is easily shown in his own words. You can bet it will be used as a very broad brush in the mainstream media to tar the entire party and all candidates who do not disavow him. And worse, a large number of voters still depend on that source for voting information. This will be devastating on down-ticket races. It has 3 effects, first it drives away moderates due to labeling regardless of truth behind it (Goebbels repetition of a lie, used by the left press now), and second it splits the usual base of the Republican party even further due to not wanting to be associated with a racist. Third, it causes the down-ticket to split away from the party lead, weakening both. The Trump supporters have already chased many conservatives like me away, and now they seem bent on running headlong in some sort of Gotterdammerung for the GOP in their anger at "the establishment", failing to hold themselves accountable for the candidate who they supported. Admittedly I do not understand why such blind support exists on the right. IMHO Trump had far more serious flaws for the general election than any of the other candidates. I recognize that all candidates have flaws, but the Trump people very vocally attack anyone posting such things about their candidate. Its hero worship, almost cult-like behavior from that subset of supporters. I thought "we" on the liberty/right side of things learned better after seeing this on the left with Obama. instead, people are imitating it. As for Campos, he is a lefty crank with an axe to grind. And with this, he will stir up the Skinheads and Nazis, who will oblige him with a vociferous and hate filled attack barrage to help him prove his point that racists support Trump and thus help his case with guilt-by-association. Sad that it came to this. Our only hope is that Hillary gets indicted before Trump flames out completely. Yeah, right. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2016-06-06 04:52 |
| #2 "Death to melanin-deficient!"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-06-06 03:47 |
| #1 Ed Brooke was a Senator from Massachusetts from 1967 to 1979. I guess he counts as white because he was a Republican. |
| Posted by: Grins Snese4215 2016-06-06 01:23 |